Re: Badger pistons the pro's and cons....

[farna@xxxxxxx]

Looks like sound research John. Will have to remember this! 

I'm not positive that Silvolite doesn't still make the Badger pistons. There was a big merge/close-down of piston manufacturers 6-10 years ago. The bad batch could have been rushed during a merger, or rather made shortly after manufacturing facilities were changed. At any rate, the problem seems to have been fixed. 


On September 21, 2004 John Bilwin wrote:

> Dan,
> 
>        You are right that it seems some people had a bad experience with badger pistons in their motors, and before I did the research I was hesitant about putting them in my 343. At the same time however, I have emailed some AMC builders/collectors that I know personally, and have also received an explanation of WHY some have had problems.  Apparently at one time badger could not supply the demand for their pistons and silvolite manufactured the pistons FOR badger for a period of time-I don't know how long-but it is that batch of pistons that had the quality control problems.  When badger took the manufacturing of the pistons over again, they used "struts" to reinforce the piston skirts to control expansion and cracking. This is a common practice with many production car engine manufacturers as well. The struts are basically steel(I believe) plates. If you get a set of Badgers without the struts you "could" have a set manufactured by silvolite that "may" have a problem wi!
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>   thermal expansion and cracking or seizing.  I also discovered that badger has re-released the 343 pistons and they are making them NOW-they were discontinued for awhile but not any more.


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